Word: maximum
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City officials say they have identified about 12 parcels of land that could be transferred to a land bank, creating a maximum of 150 new apartments at an average rate of about 30 a year...
Since the state economy is going to limit the amount of housing the city can build, Schlesinger and other city planners says that a lower maximum income will only delay the creation of new housing...
...fair; all should contribute." But when the President got to specifics, fairness became scarce. In the name of promoting economic growth, Bush renewed his support of six tax giveaways that would cost the Treasury an estimated $30 billion over five years. The most controversial of these would cut the maximum levy on capital gains from 33% to 15%. Meanwhile, he seemed to reject any increase in income taxes for high earners. Concerning reductions in domestic spending -- the most politically explosive part of deficit control -- Bush was mute...
...undergraduate seminar I was shopping this week, the professor explained to the 20-odd students in the room how she planned to cut the class down to its 15-person maximum: "Since this is a course where class discussion is very important, I am going to take only upperclassmen...
...bait, discouraging alternative energy sources and conservation, and setting the stage for a bigger rip-off tomorrow. It is impossible to say what price today minimizes the long-run cost of oil for consumers. What you can say for sure is that oil producers have exactly the opposite objective: maximum revenue in the long run. Letting a producer cartel fix the price cannot be good for consumers...